Earlier this year, Nature published Dynasty—my story about Bob Paine, who changed the face of ecology with his bold ideas, but also spawned an academic family tree that did the same. The piece was the culmination of a year of work and is one of my favourites. So, I was honoured when the good people at the Open Notebook asked to interview me about it.

I’ve been reading Carl Zimmer’s books for around a decade now. I’ve blogged alongside him at three different networks for five years. I’ve been plugging his superb work on this blog for around the same time. And now I’ve been interviewed by him. We talked about coming up with the idea for Dynasty, doing the reporting, and crafting the story.

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Ed Yong is an award-winning British science writer. Not Exactly Rocket Science is his hub for talking about the awe-inspiring, beautiful and quirky world of science to as many people as possible.
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